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Alvia J. Wardlaw (born November 5, 1947) is an American art scholar, and one of the country's top experts on African-American art. [1] She is Curator and Director of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, an institution central to the development of art by African Americans in Houston.
Art historian, Museum director, Curator: Spouse: Caroline Brettell: Academic background; Alma mater: Yale University: Doctoral advisor: Anne Coffin Hanson: Academic work; Institutions: University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin: Main interests: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.
In 1935, Holden organized the West Texas Museum Association and sought funds from the Texas Centennial Commission for the West Texas Museum (now known as the Museum of Texas Tech University). In 1955, Holden, J. Evetts Haley, and other historians organized the Southwest Collection and Archives, which contained West Texas ranch records.
In 1994, Pissarro was named chief curator of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2000, Pissarro began working in New York City as a member of the Advisory Committee on Archives, Library, and Research at the Museum of Modern Art. In 2003, he became curator of the MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture department.
David B. Gracy II was born on October 25, 1941, to David Caldwell and Alice Tillar (née Duggan) Gracy in Austin, Texas.Gracy's father was a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin who was a principal of the Gracy Title Company of Austin, while his mother was descended from the Littlefield family, the largest benefactor to the university during its early years. [1]
The MFAH Photography department was established in December, when Tucker was hired as a consultant to act as curator of photography. In 1978, she became the MFAH curator, and in 1984 she was named the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography. She has increased the museum's holdings of photographs to over 24,000 in 2008. [4]
During that tenure, Tinterow was part of a group of curators to help formalize the Association of Art Museum Curators. In 2012, Tinterow returned to his native Texas and was named Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , following the death of the preceding director, Peter Marzio .